Chapter 36

What is meant by sharing a room?

After digging her luggage out of the dormitory that had been bombed by the Dragon Star Group, Mary walked to the door of dormitory 280 with her luggage and happened to run into Wei Xin, who was returning from the market after buying groceries.

By the time Mary finished packing her luggage, Wei Xin had already prepared lunch, including Mary's Pokémon.

"Everyone, come out."

Marie threw two Poké Balls, and two Pokémon landed in the dormitory room.

One was a hairy troll with a hairy face, sharp teeth, and long, pointed ears. Its appearance was peculiar, and its robust body was covered by long, black hair.

The other one was a bad frog with yellow eyes, orange expandable pouches on its cheeks (more accurately, venom sacs), an open mouth, wide, flat teeth, and white bandage-like stripes around its chest.

"There was a minor accident in our previous dormitory, so we have to stay at someone else's house temporarily. You all need to be careful and don't cause Wei Xin any trouble, understand?" Mary commanded, feigning fierceness.

"Mobe! Roar! Ralts!" Morbeko, the hairy troll, and Ralts raised their hands to indicate that they understood.

"Bad Frog, what about you?" Mary bent down and looked at the Bad Frog squatting on the ground.

After a moment of silence, the scoundrel curled his lips and clicked his tongue in disdain.

The expression on his face seemed to say, "You blew up the house while cooking a meal, you useless trainer."

Ignoring Mary's instructions, the wicked frog turned around and stared at the kitchen when it heard noises coming from inside. Taking advantage of Mary's inattention, it strode towards the kitchen.

Silently pushing open the kitchen door, Wei Xin, wearing an apron and busy in the kitchen, caught the eye of the scoundrel as he looked at the ingredients in the basket.

Unbridled, the frog walked up to Wei Xin. Because it wasn't tall enough, it stood on tiptoe and leaned against the edge of the table, trying to touch the vegetables in the basket.

Picking up an onion at random, the naughty frog opened its mouth, just about to perform a performance of swallowing the onion whole, when it sensed the gaze beside it, turned its head slightly, and met the eyes of Wei Xin, who was preparing the ingredients.

Wei Xin smiled and said, "Are you hungry? Wait a moment, lunch will be ready soon."

"Also, onions need to be washed before eating. Would you like me to wash them for you?"

Looking at Wei Xin's face, the bulging venom sacs on the Bad Frog's face retracted, gradually turning from orange to pink, and then it looked at the onion in its hand.

She carefully placed it back in the basket, then quietly left the kitchen, taking one last peek at Wei Xin, who was busy in the room, as she closed the door.

Before long, Wei Xin brought the food to the table. The moment he lifted the lid, hot white steam spread throughout the room. The aromas of vegetables and meat mingled together, filling the entire room like a symphony.

Even Ralts, who was already full, couldn't help but swallow.

"Be careful, don't burn yourself." With that, Wei Xin handed the washed onion to the delinquent frog, who was squatting on the ground, resting his chin on his hand and staring blankly. "I washed your onion for you."

Looking down at the onion in his hand, then looking up at Wei Xin, the venom sac that had finally faded from the color of the bastard frog turned pink again, as if it were shy. Holding the onion, the bastard frog silently walked to the corner of the living room without saying a word.

"You're kidding, right? The naughty frog is actually shy." Mary exclaimed in surprise at the naughty frog's reaction.

As if by magic, the handkerchief covering the plate in front of Ralts was lifted, revealing the specially prepared lemon pudding, which made Ralts clap its hands with joy.

Wei Xin smiled and said, "After all, she's a girl."

"A girl, a delinquent frog?" Mary took a big bite of meat from the pot, pulled the spoon out of her mouth, turned to look at the delinquent frog staring blankly at the onions in the corner, and asked, "How did you figure that out?"

Because the scoundrel was a gift from her brother, and aside from fighting, it usually does its own thing and doesn't listen to her, Marie had no idea what the scoundrel's gender was.

"It's the bandages on their bodies," Wei Xin explained. "The female malnourished frogs have more bandages than the males."

Wei Xin learned this knowledge incidentally while making the training plan that morning.

In fact, the reason he took the initiative to take over other people's plans was to learn about Pokémon while memorizing information about other students' Pokémon, in order to prepare for the upcoming freshman competition.

I, the intelligence expert, am based in the field of intelligence. My main strategy is to despise the enemy strategically while taking them seriously tactically.

"By the way, I saw online that when unrelated men and women live under the same roof, is that called 'sharing a room' in your Donghuang language?"

After Wei Xin placed the food for the Bad Frog separately in front of it and returned to the dining table, Mary suddenly asked a question.

Raising his head with the sluggishness of an otter, Wei Xin revealed clear eyes: "Huh?"

Do you want to listen to what your silly little mouth is saying?

Faced with Mary's misuse of idioms and outrageous remarks, Wei Xin corrected her: "What you really meant was cohabitation, right? 'Cohabitation' is a verb."

As he spoke, Wei Xin showed Mary the definitions of the words he had searched on his phone.

Sexual intercourse refers to sexual activity between a married couple or between spouses...

Before she could finish reading the rest, Mary's entire face turned red.

Even her mental activity was reduced to nothing more than screams like "Ahhhhhh!" and "Wuuuuu!", like a steam engine.

"If Mary is interested, I can teach you Donghuang language," Wei Xin suddenly said in fluent Galar. "If that doesn't work, we can communicate directly in Galar."

"You speak Galar, are you also a Galar?" As if she had met a fellow countryman in a foreign land, Mary's eyes lit up, and a sense of security welled up inside her.

"No, I am from Donghuang," Wei Xin said, although he was unsure of his ancestral home due to his unknown origins.

"So you studied Galar before?" Mary asked.

"No, I only learned it this morning," Wei Xin said.

"This morning?" Mary exclaimed in shock. "But you speak exactly like a Galatian..."

As she spoke, as if she had thought of something, Mary suddenly fell silent.

[We just learned Galilean this morning. Why is Weixin suddenly interested in Galilean?]

[Not Unova, not Sinnoh, not Kanto, but Galar?]

Then, a hypothesis came to Mary's mind.

Could it be because of me? Because I'm Galatian? So you specifically learned Galatian? Just because you saw me yesterday?

[Could the Pokémon hunter thing also be a lie, just an excuse to make me live with him?]

Ah yes, yes, back then, when Qin Shi Huang conquered the six states, it was also because he wanted to live with people from other states.

The six states: Everyone obeys you, so you will die.

With her thoughts in disarray, Mary suddenly felt like a ring-eared creature, having fallen into the trap of the mane-like werewolf without any warning.

Even the food she ate made Mary feel hot.

"What's wrong? Is it not to your liking?" Wei Xin asked, puzzled, seeing Mary suddenly stop eating. "Or are you already full and want some dessert?"

As he spoke, Wei Xin took a lemon pudding out of the refrigerator and pushed it in front of Mary.

Looking at the dishes on the plate, the rice in the bowl, the pudding in front of her, and Wei Xin's smiling face, Mary seemed unwilling but helpless as she accepted the pudding Wei Xin offered.

After taking a bite, as the sweetness and fragrance melted in her mouth, Mary finally gave up resisting and chose to quietly indulge in the gentle embrace.

[Pokémon hunters, could you please show up a little later?]